Website hacked, cpanel password not encrypted?

Posted by Jeg Bagus on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Jeg Bagus
Published on 2012-07-16T01:27:34Z Indexed on 2012/09/03 15:52 UTC
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Yesterday I found out that all the websites that are hosted on my webhosting site were hacked. I tried to change my password, and unbelievably, I COULD SEE my password there. This means my password is able to be decrypted.

I asked customer support, and they say, its normal, CPanel saves the password like that. Is it true? I mean, cpanel password able to be decrypted?

They blame me because my wordpress version is out of date. But 2 of my website are on different platforms. One made by CI and one by Wordpress, and all are hacked.

Is this hosting reliable?

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